Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Let’s face it: most people will not read Justice Alito’s carefully crafted arguments about what the constitution says or doesn’t say about abortion, or the meaning of “ordered liberty” through our history. We do not live in history. We live in the time of our time. And, until just recently, this has been a time that discarded former modes of conduct between men, women, and children as inconvenient to the presumably greater project of self-actualization.
To be-all-that-you-can-be is a stirring notion, and it seemed to work nicely within the colossal techno-industrial armature of the past century, with all its inducements to thrive personally, at least for the comfortable elites who pulled the levers of that system — though not so much for those below caught in the gears, who produced children despite all the novel means for avoiding it. For the fortunate, motherhood became just another “no” box to check off, while fatherhood merged into the odious mists of obsolete patriarchy. History is made up of things that seem like good ideas at the time. The hard part now is moving out of a familiar time into the undiscovered country of a new time.
The support system for all that is going, going, gone and in the ensuing flux all that rousing self-actualization starts to look more like Thomas Hobbes’s war of all against all, a savage and pre-human state of nature. As this occurs, all human beings have to fall back on are modes of conduct that include a moral and ethical dimension, which is to say, what is right and what is wrong, not just what is allowed at a given moment.
Which is also to say: maybe the time of smashing boundaries is over. As that scaffold of techno-industrial comfort and safety disintegrates, and all the dazzling promises of becoming transhuman dissolve — sorry, Klaus Schwab — we will likely have to settle for being human again, and in the best way, not the worst way. That includes a certain reverence for our nature and for each other. That suggests not killing children.
These days, this place on the planet that used to be a nation groans under a tribulation of bad ideas, bad choices, bad conduct, bad management, and bad faith. We have not been so ripe for regime change since 1776. A ruling Party of Chaos is doing absolutely everything to disorder our lives and there really is no generous interpretation for its motives. Everything it touches breaks, wilts, withers, splinters, rots, poisons, and infects the body politic, driving it deeper into derangement. It doesn’t even pretend to make sense because that would require making distinctions between what is true and what’s not true. We follow-the-science into pure evil.
What awaits is the abandond scaffold of the family and the community as opposed to the brute hierarchies of mere lonely, forsaken persons under the leviathan state and the behemoth corporation, which have produced mainly new kinds of cruelties, such as: the deadly “vaccine” mandates, the no-knock FBI visitations, the surveillance cameras, the robotic phone trees with their interminable holds, the obtuse insults of the HR departments, the drag queens twerking in your childrens’ faces, and much more. You might not know it from the news — what is the news now, anyway, except mercenary shuck-and-jive — but these giant governments and corporations are thrashing in their death throes. Get out of their way if you possibly can. Form the bonds you can with people and cherish them. For many, they will be all you’ll have for a while.
You can’t overstate the havoc that we’ll have to live with in the months ahead, short of blowing up the whole joint, one can hope. And it will happen just as a gigantic set of pretenses to a New Order of things rolls out to thumping failure. Forget about central bank digital currencies. Don’t believe that the very people who have severed the relationship between actual capital and money can just magically conjure a new order of money that they propose to control and you don’t. Meanwhile, the old-school money they created too much of is headed for biggest gaping black hole imaginable because that’s what happens when money based on debt is not paid back. So, for a while, there will be too much money and then there will be not enough, and then nobody will have money.
All that happens as the supply of every kind of stuff in the world stops moving from Point A to Point B, including replacement parts for every sort of machine, distribution of petroleum and its products, and food. And at the same time, it finally becomes too obvious to ignore the fact that many millions are dying or becoming disabled from the effects of the mRNA vaccines foisted on the public, especially in the USA and Europe.
Out of all that suffering will eventually come a new respect for human life and reconstructed relations between men and women, with all the abstruse ambiguities, pretensions, and nebulosities about sex put aside for some future age of decadence. It won’t require further agonizing reappraisals by any high courts to figure it out. Children are the consequence of sex. Children are required to carry on the human project.
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“These days, this place on the planet that used to be a nation groans under a tribulation of bad ideas, bad choices, bad conduct, bad management, and bad faith. We have not been so ripe for regime change since 1776.”
Indeed, and amen. Jimmy always has some sentences that are achingly truthful. And he’s still optimistic….
That sentence really stood out for me as well.
Nothing is new. What you quoted was said (in different words) when Washington was President and Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury. The newly created Republican Party wanted to oust the Federalist regime and take over. And they did, keeping for themselves all the constitutional powers they claimed the Federalists usurped by clever construction of the Constitution. The Whiskey Rebellion was intimidated to disappear by the Army, though their cause and the reasoning they used were correct, the tax laid on their whiskey was unconstitutional because it was not uniform. “Why, they asked, should we pay what others who have paid nothing will receive?”
The world was at war or going to war. The French revolution had turned into the Terror and would soon lead to dictatorship by Napoleon. The Barbary pirates and the British were decimating our shipping.
The British were stirring up the tribes on the frontier. So were the French, and they were both arming them.
A collapse is not a collapse until the people lose all faith in all of their institutions, the biggest being Government. And we’re losing faith a million cuts at a time, daily. How long do we have until we reach the quickening point? We may not even know it until the aftermath it releases is analyzed moths or even years later. But I have a feeling we’re speeding to that point, as the things we see people do and say everyday is getting crazier all the time.
Quickening point is decent, loved Highlander, but Tipping Point fits the bill perfectly.
I don’t know, but 2 years ago I started trying to get people to stop supporting the current system and start practicing other ways of doing things. I thought that it would be better to plan ahead than to end up totally screwed over, as it was quite obvious was happening when they were shutting people down by declaring them non-essential. How much of a clue do you need?
Now we’re in the time when they release the pressure before it is turned up again, and so people have let their guard down. WW3 is already going on, and people still won’t give up on a lost cause.
I am not sure if it is planned release valves or if they are panicking that their plans are failing. It won’t change my plans or actions, regardless.
The latent Christian values of this country are proving more resilient than their arrogance and disbelief could account for. But I won’t forget this is a fallen world with many tribulations ahead.
The wicked parade around in their thousands while millions are trying to fix their lives, and even more millions walk in ignorance. This is a war that never ends until the final days.
So true.
Yes, the vast majority of Christian values are based upon the natural law. Everyone knows the natural law. The Ten Commandments are based upon the natural, with the possible exception of the First.
Natural Law deals with reality, and you cannot fight reality for very long before you lose.
Just browsing Gab a bit restores my faith in the heritage Americans in this country. The Christian zeitgeist is gaining momentum. People are learning that Christ has real power to offer the faithful, even though we have been lied to about it all of our lives.
“Heritage Americans is a new one for me. Who do you mean by it? Thanks
Those descended from the people who made and built this country.
WHITE PEOPLE
When the money we are required to accept by law is know to be essentially worthless, interesting things will happen. Venezuela is a recent example. Zimbabwe was a while ago.
The internet here is blinking of and on mostly off, transmission in the van will not shift, the electric window in the truck is stuck down and it is raining.
Fuel was $6 a gallon last night and they had some.
What are you talking about, it doesn’t get any better than this.
” So, for a while, there will be too much money and then there will be not enough, and then nobody will have money.”
– JHK
Refreshingly clear prognostication on the upcoming macro-economic shituation.
Reminds Auntie of another concise approach to the Dismal Science:
The salient $$$ part of his most excellent Five-Minute University begins at approx. 1:50 mins.
Great ideas regarding higher education from the esteemed Fr. Guido; yes? (Classic stuff, indeed.)
Classic
Moar educashun here
Mike Judge IS a genius and Auntie loves, loves, loves edge-a-kayshin!
That probably covers most peoples’ knowledge of economics, except more and more don’t know what supply and demand does to prices.
One Can Hope.
Nothing has really changed. A woman in Missouri can easily go to Illinois to get an abortion. Some abortions in some states will be illegal and Any abortion in some states will be legal. I am glad that my state has made most abortions illegal.
All this hoop la is just a distraction from the economic collapse that is upon us. The politicians and their owners the bankers want to deflect blame for what is coming. Admin pointed that out a few days ago. The collapse will usher in the dictatorship of the queers and niggers.
That dictatorship is already here….
Not that many people listen to them, or crackers either, whether they are in government or out.
That being so, it’s the bureaucrats making laws that really rule us.
At least 20 States will ban elective abortion entirely…so some things will change…
“the robotic phone trees with their interminable holds”
Can a human answer the phone? Why is that so difficult? I often do not have a standard question when I call. I can find the easy answers elsewhere if I look for them. My inquiry does not fit the damn menu, so what number do I choose? Then I wait, and wait, and wait just to be told to dial another number and be on hold again. *I have had to lie to the A.I. chatbot on the other end just to advance to the next level.* I don’t want to lie, not even to AI. I found myself yelling into the phone, Give me a human!!! Just answer the damn phone. Why did we ever put up with this crap? Now it’s normal, so it won’t go away.
Thank for reading my rant.
get human
That’s a lot of words already covered better in the Christian Bible. Why do people look everywhere but where proven wisdom is written? Is it arrogance, ignorance, or the mistaken belief that humanity has changed?
Which Christian bible do you prefer?
EOB
All of the above plus laziness.
I really, really wish I could share some of Kunstler’s optimism that the country is ripe but I just do not see anything taking to the streets and barricades; the institutions,”, i.e. militarized police, gestapo fbi, doj, national guard, will respond and come down on the movement like a ton of bricks as they have been doing.
Justice, constitution protections, forgetabotta it, they ain’t goona be there and the ball less eunuchs’ in congress ain’t goona be there either.
There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
“The self is who we truly are, but the persona or mask (the word comes from the Latin for an actor’s mask) is the face we turn to the world in order to deal with it. A persona is absolutely necessary, but the problem is that we often become identified with it, to the detriment of our self, a dilemma that the existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre recognized in his notion of mauvaise foi, or “bad faith,” when one becomes associated exclusively with one’s social role.”
― Gary Valentine Lachman, Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung’s Life & Teaching